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- When Arsenic and Old Lace opened on Broadway in 1941, Alcorn attended a show but reportedly didn’t like it. However, the play was a huge success, leading Frank Capra to release a film adaptation in 1944.
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Oct 3, 2023 · Arsenic and Old Lace started as a smash-hit play written by Joseph Kesselring. It ran for over three years before being adapted into a film . Cary Grant was initially hesitant to take on the lead role.
The play Arsenic and Old Lace was written by Joseph Kesselring, son of German immigrants and a former professor at Bethel College, a pacifist Mennonite college. It was written in the anti-war atmosphere of the late 1930s.
- $4.8 million
- Max Steiner
- $1.2 million
- Frank Capra, Jack L. Warner
Boris Karloff was denied permission to go by the play's producers, fearing that the absence of their main star would adversely affect the play's attendance. The film was shot between October 20 and December 16, 1941.
Oct 25, 2021 · When Arsenic and Old Lace opened on Broadway in 1941, Alcorn attended a show but reportedly didn’t like it. However, the play was a huge success, leading Frank Capra to release a film...
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Arsenic and Old Lace was kept in the vault and not released until late 1944 because of a clause in the film rights contract stipulating it could not open while the hit play was still running. When it finally went into release it was a commercial success.
Before the happy couple arrives, Aunt Abby is entertaining the Rev. Harper to tea whilst Teddy plays the piano. Police Sergeant Brophy ( Edward McNamara ) and Officer O'Hara ( Jack Carson ), to whom Brophy is handing over his beat, call at the house to collect repaired toys for a charity.
Arsenic and Old Lace: Directed by Frank Capra. With Cary Grant, Priscilla Lane, Raymond Massey, Jack Carson. A Brooklyn writer of books on the futility of marriage risks his reputation after he decides to tie the knot.
